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Bert for Coreference Resolution: Baselines and Analysis (arxiv.org)
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In plain words: They use BERT, a network trained on lots of text, to work out which words point to the same person or thing. It beat earlier systems by up to 11.5 points and was best at telling similar but different people apart.

Abstract · BERT for Coreference Resolution: Baselines and Analysis

We apply BERT to coreference resolution, achieving strong improvements on the OntoNotes (+3.9 F1) and GAP (+11.5 F1) benchmarks. A qualitative analysis of model predictions indicates that, compared to ELMo and BERT-base, BERT-large is particularly better at distinguishing between related but distinct entities (e.g., President and CEO). However, there is still room for improvement in modeling document-level context, conversations, and mention paraphrasing. Our code and models are publicly available.

Mandar Joshi, Omer Levy, Daniel S. Weld, Luke Zettlemoyer
arXiv:1908.09091 · cs.CL · submitted Aug 24, 2019 · updated Dec 22, 2019
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